African Moths Gambia


     

Nassinia caffraria (Linnaeus, 1767)

Threaded Looper.

SYNONYMS
Geometra caffraria, Bombyx petavia, Nassunia bupaliata, Nassunia caffraria, Scardamia perobliqua,


SPECIES IN GENUS :- 3
aurantiaca, caffraria, pretoria,

 

DISTRIBUTION
Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,

 

LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Unknown,

Nassinia caffraria
Upperside
 
Upperside
 
Upperside (ZM)
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Upperside
 
Upperside (ZA)
 
Upperside (ZA)
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Live (ZA)
 
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